Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Beauty in the Broken

My inspiration comes from finding and seeing the beautiful things in unexpected places. Even in the most broken, darkest places on Earth, there can still be life, and from that life comes beauty. Take the flower on the train tracks. It is growing among rocky terrain next to the tracks where the air is polluted and heavy with smoke. Yet somehow it found that patch of soil and the nutrients it needed to grow. Hope can spring from surprising places. God placed it there...we just have to look for it.


Art is not always about taking something beautiful and drawing or interpreting it. I think that true art requires more skill and thinking than that. It is amazing when an artist can take something ugly and show the world that there can be something special found there too.